I had the honour to have much conversation with Brutus; and was told, "that his ancestor Junius, Socrates, Epaminondas, Cato the younger, Sir Thomas More, and himself were perpetually together:" a sextumvirate, to which all the ages of the world cannot add a seventh.

Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver’s Travels

Sir Thomas More says one can marry at twenty-four.

D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers

Making deliveries on the Upper East Side, he often found himself in the vicinity of a small Catholic church, St. Thomas More.

Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains

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Their taste in books was catholic, at any rate; Plato in Greek touched Omar in English; Nietzsche partnered Newton; Thomas More was there, and also Hannah More, Thomas Moore, George Moore, and even Old Moore.

James Hilton -- Lost Horizon

The next is, that Sir Thomas More is chosen Lord Chancellor in your place.

William Shakespeare -- Henry VIII

The Household Steward of Sir Thomas More!

Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons

Socrates’[344] condemnation of himself to be maintained in all honor in the Prytaneum,[345] during his life, and Sir Thomas More’s[346] playfulness at the scaffold, are of the same strain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays

"He will answer /trewe/" is in Sir Thomas More; "and /soft/ unto himself he sayd" in Chaucer; "the singers sang /loud/" in the Revised Version of the Bible (Nehemiah xii, 42), and "/indifferent/ well" in Shakespeare.

Henry L. Mencken -- The American Language

He looked to Thomas more out of place than a carrot on a tomato plant.

James Dashner -- The Maze Runner

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St. Thomas More collected old clothes for the poor.

Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains

At least this wasn’t a difficult delivery, only three crosstown blocks, and he already knew the address, right next door to that peaceful little church, St. Thomas More.

The King’s a man of conscience and he wants either Sir Thomas More to bless his marriage or Sir Thomas More destroyed.

Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons

The King’s a man of conscience and he wants either Sir Thomas More to bless his marriage or Sir Thomas More destroyed.

Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons

The one fixed point in a world of changing friendships is that Thomas More will not give in!

Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons

Yet is there a man in this court, is there a man in this country, who does not know Sir Thomas More’s opinion of the King’s title?

Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons

(Places two stools at the table, and on it mugs and a candle, which he lights) Oh, he’s a deep one, that Sir Thomas More …. Deep …. It takes a lot of education to get a man as deep as that …. (Straight to audience) And a deep nature to begin with too.

Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons

(CROMWELL looks at him viciously) CROMWELL (Goes apart; formally) Sir Thomas More, is there anything you wish to say to me concerning the King’s marriage with Queen Anne?

Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons

(While JAILER brings a stool from under the stairs and MORE sits on it, NORFOLK rattles off) This is the Seventh Commission to inquire into the case of Sir Thomas More, appointed by His Majesty’s Council.

Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons

CRANMER (Laying the cross o f his vestment on the table) Place your left hand on this and raise your right handtake your hat off— Now say after me: I swear by my immortal soul— (JAILER, overlapping, repeats the oath with him) —that I Will report truly anything said by Sir Thomas More against the King, the Council or the State of the Realm.

Pauses with a cup in hand) My master Thomas More would give anything to anyone.

Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons

As soon as the fanfare is finished NORFOLK speaks) NORFOLK (Takes refuge behind a rigorously official manner) Sir Thomas More, you are called before us here at the Hall of Westminster to answer charge of High Treason.